queer-owned bookstore centering LGBTQ+ and BIPOC authors

wolfe & kron books.

808 1/2 Fifth Ave · Asbury Park, New Jersey

temporarily closed · closed until further notice since july 6 2026, after a ceiling leak destroyed much of the stock

"Wolfe & Kron Books is a Woman / Queer Owned bookstore. We believe that Science is Real, that Abortion is Healthcare, that Women's & Trans' Rights are Human Rights, and that Black Lives Matter." a speculative-fiction shop one door down from georgies, hero-lettered "DEDICATED TO Centering LGBTQ+ & BIPOC AUTHORS," run by fin (she/they), who started it as a 20 by 10 foot stall in a flea market in march 2023. it runs a monthly queerly silent book club at queer-friendly spots around monmouth and ocean county, turned the shop into "slut crown central" for a sapphic slasher book tour, and staged a mermaid book fair inside paradise.